The Phylosophical Aspects of the Chinese Landscape Painting

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The Phylosophical Aspects of the Chinese Landscape Painting

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What makes the Chinese painting especially provocative from philosophical aspect is its immanent conditionality by the philosophy. Both basic philosophical teachings that the Chinese art is related to are the Taoism and Buddhism. Both of them are the philosophies of experience, and this is precisely why the Chinese are the people of practice, in direct contact with nature, which means life. The esthetic is not a separate segment of life, just as the man is not an antipode of nature. All the wealth of expression is only a torn part of the spiritual unity of the life manifestations.
The Chinese philosophy is read is every shape of life and in every way of expression. In this case, the painting that has the most authentic philosophical mark has been selected. Thus, the painting becomes a sole means of understanding Taoism and Chinese Buddhism, in the attempt to understand it. Still, this does not exhaust nor neglect its esthetic value. Moreover, it obtains the real treatment of legitimate philosophical discipline. The painting becomes an indicator towards the higher intellectual levels and a medium of spiritual education. It seems that the art and philosophy have had such a strong sublimation in no other culture; thus philosophy has an artistic expression, and art becomes a visual philosophy.

(The theme is explained in more details in my diploma work published in the Филозофија magazine, no.9, March, 2004)

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Translated by: Elizabeta Bakovska

AuthorSonja Dimoska
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